EWY News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI South Korea From 07/22/19

Our macro themes are intended to focus your attention on the global macro trends that matter most, writes Landon Whaley , who breaks down his approach and performance. Capturing economic and financial market data and contextualizing it is something the Old Institution and its followers f...

Joining a growing number of central banks acting to shore up their economies, the Bank of Korea unexpectedly cut its benchmark interest rate overnight, and lowered forecasts for economic growth and inflation. More news on: iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF, Korea Fund, Direxion Daily S...

Japan’s threat of export controls on South Korean chipmakers risks "large unintended consequences" on the technology supply chain, warned Shaun Roache, chief Asia-Pacific economist at S&P Global Ratings. More news on: iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF, Korea Fund, Direxion D...

A bad, bad week for global trade tensions Enter, Mexico. After the Trump administration placed its cross-hairs firmly on China's crown-jewel, Huawei, China raised the possibility of weaponizing its dominance in rare earth materials - used in smartphones, military equipment, driverless ca...

The iShares MSCI South Korea ETF ( EWY ) tracks the investment results of an index composed of large and mid-sized companies in South Korea. The price of EWY has declined by 25% for the past year, due to worries about the China-US trade war and an economic recession in Asia. In this age of unc...

Elliott R. Morss, Ph.D. ©All Rights Reserved Introduction In Part 1 of this two-part series, I suggested that the largest countries measured by GDP, population, and geographic area would be the primary drivers of global futures. Here, I look at their military and economic dimensi...

Asia-Pacific: The Week Ahead (May 27-31) South Korea’s economy appears to have taken a hit recently from U.S.-China trade-related effects, as the week ahead brings further color on the country’s consumer and business confidence, as well as a rate decision from the Bank of Kor...

Country-specific exchange-traded funds are a great way for investors to take a position on local market equity return factors. While many of the world's largest foreign companies trade on U.S. exchanges as ADRs (American Depository Receipts), country-specific ETFs often provide investors uniqu...

The iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF (NYSE: EWY ) is in a bear market down 4% YTD following a drop of 20% in 2018. The performance is related to macro headwinds including a slowdown in economic activity and exposure to Chinese trade uncertainties. I believe there is more downside ahead for ...

The purpose of this article is to assess the macro-fiscal flows for South Korea and determine what effect these flows will have on the stock market and the economy. The chart below shows the national budget information to the present day over ten years tracked alongside the stock market. T...